Improvement in portable stoves



l. c. BRYANT.

Portable Stove. v

No. 39,882. i Patented sews, 1863.

O 0 O O O O 0 o q o o o Z if N. PETERS, PholmLilhagl-mphen Washington, D. c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIeEQf IsAAo o. BRYANT, or PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT lN PORTABLE STOVES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No.

39,882, dated September 15, 1863; antedated August 2, 1862.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IsAAc U. BRYANT, of

accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The nature of my invention consists in a double-box stove, the upper section to be inclosed in the lower; also, folding hearth and legs, and with stove'pipe plates.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

A represents the portable stove, of rectangular form, in two sections, an upper and lower section. B, the upper section, slides into the lower, which, when required, is raised to form the stove. It has a draft-plate, G, and a pipe, D. This section B is held and supported in its place by thumb-screws E, one at each side and another in the rear. The thumb-screws fasten under the ledge G that surrounds the lower part of upper box or sec tion, B, and whenever the stove is to be removed the thumbscrews E are unscrewed and the upper bOX B, slides down into the lower box, A, and the stove is thus diminished in size for easy transportation. The hearth-plate operates on two joints or hinges, H, and this, too, is folded up against the front of stove. The legs I also operate on pivots forming joints J, so that the legs can be thrown back and laid fiat against the bottom of the stove.

K represents the firedoor. The advantage of this stove is that by sliding the upper sec tion into the lower, folding up the hearthplate, and turning back the legs the stove is lessened to one'half its size and made completely portable, avoiding the trouble of taking the stove apart and rebuilding it, as usually necessary to be done when required to move the ordinary cookstove that is too cumbrous to be hauled with a moving army.-

There are also two tin or sheet-iron plates, M,

with apertures to fit the pipe, and through which the pipe passes.

The third plate, N, acts as a shield and covers the apertures when the pipe is withdrawn. The object of tition or window or tent with screws and nuts,

so as to be easily fastened and prevent injury to the premises by fire originating from the heated pipe.

What 1 claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The arrangement and combination of a double-box stove, with adjustable thumbscrews at the sides, jointed hearth-plate, stovepipe plates, and jointed legs, substantially as described.

I. O. BRYANT.

Witnesses:

J. FRANKLIN BEIGART, JOHN S. HoLLINesHnAn.

these plates is to attach them to a board par- 

